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Show i A Xew England Maid. I ! A writer in The Christian Union i sketches with a sympathetic pen a typical typi-cal New England old maid, grim and brusque of manner, but having a warm heart; a hard shell saint, he felicitously calls her. "Not long afo," he says, "after the death of a proud aristocrat of the town whom she had nursed faithfully, faith-fully, she said: 'He allers used to think the Lord's overcoat wouldn't make him a jacket. Guess now he knows better.' Nor could Charity itself forbear a smile when one day in the burying ground she first saw 'Memento Mori' cut on the fain, ily stone of a local citizen, and es-claimed: es-claimed: 'I knowed all Jam Smith's darters, dar-ters, but blessed if I ever knowed before one of them had married any Mr. Mori.' " |